My research interests span across several aspects of operating systems and systems security. As a security researcher and software engineer at Lastline, Inc., I designed and developed a basis for a next generation Automated Malware Analysis (LLAMA) system that benefits from both full system emulation and virtualization. Before that, I was an assistant professor in the System and Network Security group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, under the guidance of Prof. dr. ir. Herbert Bos.

During my PhD studies, I interned twice with Microsoft Research Cambridge, where I joined the Systems and Performance Group. I also spent few months interning with the Systems and Security Department at Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore.

If you are wondering how to pronounce my name in Polish, check my Personal Corner.

News

[Sept 2013] The SysSec Red Book - a Roadmap in the area of Systems Security - has been just released. Here you can download a PDF version.

[August 2013] Istvan will be presenting our work on dowsing for buffer overflows at the Usenix Security 2013 conference!

[April 2013] I won the Roger Needham award for best PhD thesis in Computer Systems in Europe! Check here or here.